Pouch

Object Number:

CIVIC1995.X.16595

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

New Caledonia (uncertain)

Section:

Oceanian

Materials:

Palm Leaf SheathBambooRattan Peel

Description:

Flat pouch of palm frond sheath lashed with rattan peel to to two bamboo sticks across top. Although this has an historic tag attibuting it to Tahiti, it is exactly like 1994.X.11383 and .11384, both of which are labelled New Caledonia. Wendy Arbeit, author of Baskets in Polynesia, says she has never seen baskets of palm leaf sheath in Polynesia and suspects that this is a Melanesian style (email 4/17/07).

Credit Line:

Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania